Literary
SACKVILLE WEST
(Vita, 1892-1962, Poet & Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter signed 'Vita Nicolson' to Mr Darton
thanking him for sending me that very interesting young man. He duly turned up, and we had a long talk, and I gave him a letter I thought might be useful to him. He tells me there is some chance of your publishing his poems this autumn, I do hope you will be doing so, if only for the selfish motive that I may see a few more, beyond his seven little leaflets! I sent him to see a cousin of mine, who is now on the 'New Statesman', and he was enormously taken with him, and will I think do what he can to help him. I was sorry to hear you had been ill, and hope you may be sufficiently recovered to pay your visit to Sevenoaks before long - I am away from home for a week, but shall be there for the rest of the summer..., with a pencilled autograph note the The 'Young Man' is a New Zealand poet named Cresswell whom I tried to help, 2 sides 8vo., Sherfield Court, Basingstoke, no date but circa
Item Date: 1925
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Background
The house in Sevenoaks is Knole, Vita's ancestral home. The Sackville-Wests followed the usual English aristocratic inheritance customs, preventing Vita from inheriting Knole on the death of her father, a source of life-long bitterness to Vita. She and Harold therefore moved to Sissinghurst Castle in 1930 dating this letter to the 1920's. Walter D'Arcy CRESSWELL (1896-1960) was a New Zealand poet, journalist and writer. After service in the war he returned to London in 1921 where he spent most of the rest of his life although he retained his New Zealand links.
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